shorts | interview w/ zhai minglei ::
:: this video is the fourth in a Danwei series of short interviews conducted at this year’s Chinese blogger conference (cnbloggercon 2008, Guangzhou, November 15 & 16th).
In this interview, Zhai Minglei (翟明磊), a citizen journalist and blogger who previously wrote for Southern Weekly (南方周报) and later founded 1Bao.org (壹报) and Minjian (民间) magazine (since “shut down”), talks about how he is pleasantly surprised that the Internet in China has become a platform for the traditional Chinese concept of “jianghu” (江湖) to re-emerge, in the face of “miaotang” (庙堂).
This video is also available on Tudou for faster loading in China.
Filming, editing, and interviewing: Adam J. Schokora
Subtitles: Alice Liu
Music: Sulumi
// AjS
December 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Nice job on this video Adam/Alice. I like a statement Zhai Minglei made “The most important thing the Internet has done in China is provide a platform for “jianghu,” and now the truth has a platform to emerge in China.” Profound. Great stuff. Looking forward the the next CNBloggercon/Danwei video, are there more on the way?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
@ Scott Sykes, thanks for the response. Yes, more to come…there will be about 10 or so short interviews in the series. This was the fourth. Stay tuned.